A dead man from an armed attack on the offices of a pro-Kurdish party

A woman, a worker of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, HDP, was killed in an armed attack on the party’s offices in Izmir.”An assailant armed with a rifle attacked our offices in Izmir,” the party said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Our colleague Denise Poiraz was killed in the attack,” he said.

The .zmir governor’s office said the perpetrator of the attack, “a health worker who had been fired”, had been arrested.

The HDP has accused the government and the ruling party, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP, of being “instigators of this savage attack” because of the rhetorical violence against the pro-Kurdish party, whose operation they are trying to ban through justice.”They killed my daughter,” the victim’s mother said in a video posted on Twitter by the HDP, which called for protests against the attack in Izmir and Istanbul.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court delayed hearing a request for a ban on the HDP, which is accused of “terrorist” activities, due to “procedural omissions” in late March, returning the file to the prosecutor for more information.

A new indictment was filed in June in court, which is expected to hear it in the coming days.

The country’s third-largest party, the HDP, called the ban a “political coup”.

A black sheep for President Erdogan, the HDP has been the subject of relentless repression since 2016, the year its charismatic leader Selahattin Demirtas was jailed despite European protests.